[Jer]

After only 8mos of thinking about buying one my wife and I finally took delivery of our loaded Blue Ribbon metallic TCH. We paid $400 over invoice for it and no dealer fees or added markup other than our local tax rate. Needless to say we were pretty stoked due to the recent surge in hybrid sales once again. The dealership we bought it from in Denver was the last one that had any Prius hybrids and they had nine Saturday morning. By the time we arrived to do paperwork at 4:00pm they had only two left and were working a deal for one of those that was pretty much a done deal last we checked. They probably had them all sold by the time we were done and left. They had two TCH's and the other one was being sold at full MSRP as we showed up. Gas prices are scaring the poo out of a lot of motorists it appears.

Anyway, almost 200 miles on it and we're loving it. A few minor annoyances (no memory seats or adjust seat heaters on a $32k car??) but the pros far outweigh those so far. Good to finally be in the club!